The politics of hope doesn't mean hoping that people aren't going to point out differences between you and other candidates.

I have not been on the national scene as long as some of the other candidates in this race.

I'm the only one who, in 2002, opposed the war in Iraq.

I meet too many seniors all across the country who are struggling with the limited Social Security benefits that they have.

I don't want to wake up four years from now and find out that millions of Americans still lack health care because we couldn't take on the insurance industry.

We have a chance to bring the country together in a new majority.

I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over.

I am running in this race because of what Dr. King called 'the fierce urgency of now.'

The name George W. Bush will not be on the ballot.

I'll be a President who stands up for the American family.

That's wrong for America's children, and American families.

You shouldn't have to lose your wages or quit your job to care for a newborn baby, or a sick child, or an elderly parent.